A howling swell--on the war path: aw! I say billay! pour us a snifter and bring on your injuns!"" – Antique Wall Art
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This rare antique lithograph captures A howling swell--on the war path: aw! I say billay! pour us a snifter and bring on your injuns!"" in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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A howling swell--on the war path: aw! I say billay! pour us a snifter and bring on your injuns!""
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Its caption sets the joke: a "howling swell," the period slang for a showy dandy, announces he is going on the warpath and calls for a snifter and "injuns" as if he were planning a night out. Published by Currier & Ives in New York around 1890, the lithograph belongs to the firm's long run of comic prints that poked fun at fashionable young men and their pretensions. Its humor depends on stereotyped views of Native Americans, a common feature of Gilded Age comic prints that modern viewers will read as demeaning.
| Medium | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1890. |
|---|---|
| Genre | Lithographs 1890. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3206 |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,152 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174725 |
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